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Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma’s intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 support continues to be maintained but eventually it will go away. Nate Graham also noted around 73% of KDE Plasma 6 users are already using the Wayland session.

  • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Touch support really needs some love because OOF. I understand why it’s maybe not a priority, but I have a nice little 2-in-1 and I’m tired of pretending like tablets don’t at least deserve their niche.

    Any good gesture support software I might be missing?

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchscreen#Wayland/Weston

    If I’m reading the wiki correctly, touch is just reduced to pointer input and yeah, that’s exactly what it feels like

    EDIT:

    Yes, the writing is on the wall. X11’s upstream development has dropped off significantly in recent years, and X11 isn’t able to perform up to the standards of what people expect today with respect to support for multi-monitor setups, high DPI monitors, HDR, VRR, other fancy monitor features, multi-GPU setups, screen tearing, security, crash robustness, input handling, and more.

    I glossed over it on first reading, but I guess there’s a small nod to it there and that’s something.